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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (262252)	12/9/2014 10:59:04 PM
From: zeta1961	Respond to of 362787

By the time we got down to Ukiah, 101 was closed by a slide around Hopland, and the highways to the east and west were closed. A few hours after we got there, northbound 101 was closed by another slide. Spent the nite on a friend's floor, made it home Tues noon. Your whole story sounds harrowing(25 inches in...my God)---I can'tt imagine feeling trapped by a 101 closure---along with the side highways---pass the xanax, please. The good news seems to be that you weren't alone and had the skills to deal....people like me need to "not attempt this at home." I read some of the stories at the link....people seem really, really nice, rugged folk. The biochemical reactions of the brain/body stand out for me when I hear and read these stories... adrenaline rush from the pre-event dread and prep, the reality and then relief is quite the rush. On Saturday I'm definitely going to drive around to my favorite local creeks that have been bone dry until last week and see how they fared with this one. You and folk here know----there is this intimacy with the land we live in, eat from, walk on, bike on, what have you, that we develop and our need to protect it goes beyond assuring our own survival....it's a friend of the most unconditional kind and it hurts to see it dehydrated and ill-appearing like we've witnessed recently, and it's a joy to see it resuscitated by these rains.....The damages to human lives/livliehoods----as hard as they may be are but a small "cross" given what this land has had to bare over the centuries.... End of philosophical monologue.....